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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Poppy Daze

Another day and the swooping wrecking ball of outrage swings
low over the land. Yesterday was like all the bottled up bile of the weekend
bubbling up biliously and spewing itself over the newspapers and social media.
First off, the Poppy Nazis – people who are angry if you don’t wear a poppy and
believe that not to so do is mocking those who died. Those who – it is often tediously
repeated – died to defend your right to freedom of expression. The face-palming
irony of it all. They didn’t, though. They went to war for far less well-defined reasons and their memory, while it is deserving of respect, in
no way commands it.

If you believe, as @crimesofbrits seem to do, that their deaths were acts of post-colonial
hate crime brought on by the arrogance of British expansionism then, as warped
as that view may seem to you, it is their view. You don’t have to respect it,
but you can’t deny them the right to hold it, however misguided you
believe it to be. As soon as you start to shut down or shout over opinion – as we
are all guilty of at some time in our lives – you provide justification for the
leftist trope that freedom of speech does not include freedom to offend. Except it surely must.

While white Britain, especially male white Britain is
fair game for all manner of organised and prolonged hatred the very opposite applies to one
particular preserved sub-variant of humanity; the muslim. It has been ordained
from on high that we have reached nowhere near the required number of bloody
atrocities for anybody to officially raise even a murmur against islam. To which end even
tin-pot dictatorships like British Gymnastics feel the need to toe the party
line – the Communist Party line, I’m assuming – and censure Louis Smith for a joke.

They are right in a way though; islam is not a joke, it
is an invasive, doctrinaire, human-hating affront to civilisation which,
alongside other religions has wrought little but misery on mankind since its
inception. But speak out against it and you are labelled ‘islamophobic’ as if
that was a bad thing. Listen, you are right to be afraid of islam, there is nothing
irrational about it, just as there is nothing rational about believing in the literal
word of a non-existent god. islam is against all reason and it must be mocked
for its obdurance and utter lack of perspective.

Brendan O’Neill, as always, puts the case particularly well. And while mechanisms of state are still cowed before the
muslim council and desperate not to make a stand, they must realise that
attacking those who do openly oppose this alien way of living can only take the
country in one direction. Who knows, maybe the government would prefer insurrection and rampant vigilantism from those most directly affected by the
invasion; it makes the establishment look tolerant. Well done British Gymnastics, you may
just have precipitated a holy war.

Latest government statement on sharia councils

But if that doesn’t do it then islam is more than ready
to provide ever more fuel for the fires. The issue has never gone away but this week sees
some tentative moves to quantify and codify so-called sharia councils. They act
outside of British society, British laws and British interests; this much is
indisputable. As always, the official line seeks to mollify this vexatious
phenomenon by suggesting the estimate of around 80 such bodies to be an
exaggeration. At a guess I wouldn’t be surprised to discover there were this
many in Birmingham alone. Watch this space...